This from the storm last night? We only got a bit of the storm here in Scottsburg.

Wow! Stay safe out there! Quite a pic you've caught!

Been a trained spotter fr many years. We're a little better at staying safe than most of the public. I definitely don't recommend being out during severe weather without proper education.

Good good, wouldn't want to get zapped by one of those bolts! The smell of burned fur is just so damned hard to cover up!

Daymn. It wasn't that bad here in Eastern Indiana.

Yeah. A number of homes and some farm buildings were damaged about 3 or 4 miles west of my position in this photo and in the video.

(takes a breath)
BOOOOOOMMMM!
Out here in Far West Texas, we have too many interfering mountain-ranges to allow true funnels to grow (at least that's the old story around here). We do get tremendous winds that indeed cause property damage, mostly roofs of older homes getting torn off nowadays. (had a big, loud windstorm just this past Saturday), and have had a few brown-outs.
And of course, my hometown made global news with the Flood of 2006.

Really nice photo and video of the storm coming in, though the car must have been better sound insulated then I thought -- I was thinking it took them an awful long time to key the sirens on after the tornado was reported on the ground and heading for Bedford.

All the rain was absorbing outside noise. The tornado ended up passing about half a mile north of our position. NWS rated it EF3. It did substantial damage around Fayetteville, about 4 or 5 miles west of Bedford. Had it not been shrouded in rain, we would have seen it clearly from where we were.

Ouch! So the storm was an HP supercell? And yeah, you were smart (and fortunate) that the tornado was spotted before it rain-wrapped, so you knew it was coming. Rain-wrapped tornadoes are lethal.

We didnt get any sereve weather in New albany. I was going to go out and take photos but couldnt.

I love that type of weather.. really, really love it. Also--what an AMAZINGLY symmetric looking lightning shot! Amazing!

whoa, if you got that shot just sitting in the car, with regular shutter speeds, that must be a crazy storm.

Heh. That's actually a frame grab from the video in the link. Shutter speed was 1/60

heh, that explains a lot..

for cameras you usually have to sit there with the shutter open, in complete black night, but yeah lol

i live in detroit...all we got was rain

Love storms like that. Unfortunately, Minneapolis has managed to avoid really bad storms lately. The suburbs have been slammed pretty bad the last few summers, but the two inner cites of Minneapolis and Saint Paul have been spared. I hope this spring and summer will be different. I love the bit blasts of thunder that rock the building. :D Lightning, especially when it's dramatic like this, is always fun and exhilarating to watch.

WOW!

Reminds me of the time I was in Kansas City, Kansas during a Tornado Watch & Warning.

I'd never seen lightning like I'd seen that night.

I thunderstorms

Nice! We haven't had a good storm yet this year, but they're a-comin'...

Now that is a sweet shoot.

BOOM!


... *pounces*

Thats awesome that you were able to catch it so well!

I don't know how I missed this. Awesome shot there!